Well, he didn’t do all of that damage single handedly.
San Jose is under curfew for tonight and the next few days. 8p-5a, so basically dusk 'til dawn.
A friend of mine was at the Oakland protests last night. The way she described it sounded harrowing.
Let us never forget Porkins! ;-)
But, now that you mention it, Luke didn’t sustain that injury till well after the destruction of the first Death Star, you’re right.
Dejin
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Unfortunately he was found “guilty” of reporting while being black. Similar to the situation where a black/Latino CNN reporter was arrested while a white reporter next to him was not.
JFC. I thought they were going to come shake his hand and it would be this great feel good moment. Fuck these guys so hard. My rage is not diminishing.
I might be derailing this conversation but oftentimes “foreign aid” is intended to control/influence foreign governments (usually to allow state linked companies in,) it’s not to actually help the recipient countries.
Soma
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This is Auckland this afternoon:
Yeah my goal for June 1 2020 was “3am patrol alleyway for stashed gasoline and terrorists” so things really worked out for me
pyrhic
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holy shit but the person in the bottom right almost looks like pennywise…
At the risk of continuing the derail:
Summary
Myth #1: America spends too much on foreign aid
Opinion polls consistently report that Americans believe foreign aid is in the range of 25 percent of the federal budget. When asked how much it should be, they say about 10 percent. In fact, at $39.2 billion for fiscal year 2019, foreign assistance is less than 1 percent of the federal budget.
@GMIngramIV
Myth #2: Others don’t do their fair share
The U.S. provides more assistance than any other country. As the world’s wealthiest nation, that’s appropriate. There is a broad international commitment that wealthy countries should provide annually 0.7 percent of GNP to assist poor countries. Five countries (Norway, Sweden, Luxembourg, Denmark, and the U.K.) exceed that benchmark. The average for all wealthy nations is around 0.4 percent. The U.S. ranks near the bottom at below 0.2 percent.
Myth #3: U.S. foreign aid is mainly backed by Democrats
Foreign aid historically has been viewed more as a Democratic than Republican program. The Marshall Plan was initiated by the Truman administration, and in the 1990s, when votes in the Congress on foreign aid spending were close, the appropriations bill garnered more Democratic than Republican votes. But every president, Democratic and Republican, until the current occupant of the White House, has been a strong proponent of foreign assistance.
In fact, some of the most rapid increases in foreign aid have come during Republican presidencies—the first term of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. Since the creation in the early 2000s of President Bush’s signature popular and successful programs of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and the President’s Malaria Program (PMI), foreign aid now also carries a Republican brand and has received overwhelming congressional support from both parties, including bipartisan rejection of the one-third cuts to international spending proposed by the Trump administration.
Myth #4: Foreign aid goes to corrupt, wasteful governments
Only a minority of U.S. economic assistance goes to governments. In 2018, 21 percent of U.S. official development assistance went to governments, 20 percent to non-profit organizations, 34 percent to multilateral organizations, and 25 percent elsewhere. Typically, when the U.S. wants to support a country that is ruled by a corrupt, uncooperative, or autocratic government, U.S. assistance goes through private channels—NGOs or other private entities—or multilateral organizations. Accountability of U.S. economic assistance is high—the U.S. imposes stringent, some would say onerous, reporting and accounting requirements on recipients of U.S. assistance, and the office of the U.S. inspector general (IG) investigates misuse.
To be fair the Daughters of the ______ [American Revolution, Texas Revolution, Confederacy] are generally just little old ladies doing genealogy and buying cemetery headstones/improvements. My grandmother was in both the American Revolution and Texas Revolution chapters (DAR & DRT, respectively).
Well, were anyway.
Were?
This sounds like they always were a white supremacist group.
There is quite a bit of difference (conceptually, at least) between the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Daughters of the Confederacy.
Shame historical objects were lost, should’ve been kept in non trash organization.
Oh sure, but from reports (I never went to one) her experiences in both were basically just “report on geology” and “raised money for cemetery X”. I’m not saying the Daughters of the Confederacy were the same since I don’t know but I doubt they were much different to be honest. Not that celebrating the Confederacy in a “good” way is much better than the alternatives.
your granny was hardly going to regale you with tales of how her and her supremacist buddies did everything they could to “keep the n*****rs down” , was she.
